From: Alin Soare <as1789@gmail.com>
To: "Edward O'Connor" <hober0@gmail.com>
Cc: Emacs Dev <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Generating an unique symbol in elisp
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 00:12:26 +0200 [thread overview]
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2010/12/4 Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com>
> > The name is the problem. Does it generate an uninexistent name, or have I
> > write a function to generate the uninexistent name ?
>
> The name isn't the problem. You can (make-symbol "foo") a bunch of
> times, and you'll have a bunch of different symbols. That's what it
> means for them to be uninterned.
>
Good.
Can you bind a value in variable field/ evaluate a symbol as a variable if
it is not interned ?
Otherwise, can you create an obarray (different of main obarr) and intern
within it only a few symbols (in this case the matter ), and evaluate within
that environment ?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-03 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-03 21:19 Generating an unique symbol in elisp Alin Soare
2010-12-03 21:30 ` Edward O'Connor
2010-12-03 21:33 ` Alin Soare
2010-12-03 22:03 ` Edward O'Connor
2010-12-03 22:12 ` Alin Soare [this message]
2010-12-03 22:23 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-03 22:38 ` Alin Soare
2010-12-03 22:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-03 21:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-12-03 21:44 ` Alin Soare
2010-12-03 22:34 ` Stefan Monnier
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